The Europeans have lots of data on the use of adjuvanted flu vaccine in the elderly, but I don't think anybody has really good data on adjuvants in children.
Evidence-based reasoning underpins all scientific thinking, and it involves testing hypotheses or theories against data. Validating a theory requires replicable measurements from independent groups with different equipment and methods of analysis. Convergence of evidence is critical to the acceptance of a scientific idea.
Data is the most valuable asset in the world.
Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.
Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information.
We should be careful not to vilify encryption itself, which is essential for privacy, data security, and global commerce.
The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.
In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.